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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

An amusing accident occurred not long
since at the close Of an evening meeting
at one Of our churches. \ well-known
citizen and wife attended the service,
going rhithcr. rs was their custom IN
their own vehicle When the meeting
was over the husband told the wife to be
out at the door, % a. TO be ready 70 %
home when he came along with the horse
and the sleigh. She was promptly on
time: and d team came up. man held out
his hand and helped her in- and drove on
with her. They had not gone great
way, when she said, 1T seems 70 me you
got the horse quick ;" The man looked Mt
her moment in surprise on hearing a
strange voice, and exclaimed Good grac-
ious have got the wrong woman. lie
turned the horse around, and drove back
to the place of meeting where an eX-
change was made; and he started once
more with the right woman. .-t"Rc"fd
Rerietr.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14
Nasty.


Z I
4 COUNTRY ruAr MI suorIp 80 ID WAR
VIM.
4 Po>roFII~ CuNFFpRir \ ROADS
/ tNlch j. in the State nv Kentucky. :
/ Feb II 1857
I ! hcy bin givin this >ubjct uy war a
{ great locl NY thot for the past tive weeks
+ ami hey experienced change Nv hart onto
Il; hce come to the concloo>hun that
+ the DimoCriSy want war and want one
+ Md. We want a war on the same prin>i-
PIE That when Gross Roader hez fever
,.ud agcr he don't miid the hie> he hcz on
tu Himn - 50, III we kiu git into a war
tho kculry viii forgt the >n~ nv om>hn
an rami~hn we otherwise shell hey 10 ak.
knuu ion.
We want Il war fur otLcr reasons In
civil life thcr aint cunr offices to 90 around
and army, no matter hnw small, must
hey fun complement Of otli>crS rhcr
are hundreds nv thousand nv conScicn~ln~
Dimocrat, thi~ mint hc~ecgin His Ege~-
lrncy FOR places wich they hey lin wait
ia fur, ln these - NccTe. WiCh he hckut
got to satisfy cm. lun can't put ten men
int" one par" no matter how much work
they lid in -, nor kiu ynp 20 e. work and
create nine more civ.l pni~i. fur them
'ich must hc left
healthy War wood solve this drlikif
problem HON gladly wood niuc appli-
raucc fur giy,u unl~ turn FL over I'd WIN
aul take >utirr~hip~ qnartrrma~tcr>hjp,
and romni~~ary-h jn the army iu lrN
thereof HOW many uy these Wool ~
satisfied ro be Br.adcrr~. i'e course tIr
pe"pie N0ed howl fhat thc purely military
tif. -Lppti ~. 1i}.tt iy Ettir,-t t.ttlp- t,,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

The work carried on by the c. l.. s.
C.. through correspondence during the
year, il supplemented by the meetings Of
the Summer \ Assemblies.
Chautauqua, the first Of these assem-
bleS the centre of the Chautauqua Liter
arv and Scientific Circle, and the Mecca of
all c. l.. S. c. students, holds its sessions
throughout the months of July and
August.
Rare opportunities for study under able
instructors, brilliant lectures and enter
tainments, and the social gatherings of
members of the great Circle, prove a
source of attraction which has steadily In
creased from year to year.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

G.. A. Parcher can always be relied upon 20.
carry in stock the purest and best goods, and
sustain the reputation Of being active gushing
and reliable, by recommending articles with
well established merit and such a. are popular
Having the agency for the celebrated DR.,
Kings New Discovery for consumption, colds.
and coughs, will sell il op a positive guarantee
1t will surely cure any and every affection OF
throat lungs or chest, aud in order to prove.
our claim, we ask YOU to cali and get "a Trial
Bottle Free,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

In General Debility. EmaciatiOn,

Consumption and W asting in Children, Scotts
Emulsion is a most valuable food and medi-
cine; it creates an appetite, strengthens the
nervous system and builds up the body.
Have been highly pleased with il in Con-
sumption, Scrofula, and Wasting Diseases,
bronchitis and Throat Troubles."-A. JONES,
ND, Cornersyille, Tenn.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

A woman who, six years ago, knew
nothing of business, now makes the only
blankets in the country that can compete
with those of the famou, Mission Mills,
in California. She has small mill run by
water-power up in Vermont, and she ex-
perimented in her own kitchen mixing the
dyes until she got tire exact shades. Her
blankets now can hardly be distinguished
from those of the Mission Mills, and her
little mill is kept running day and night to
fill heavy orders,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

Miss Grace. Ii. Dodge, thr new woman
school commissioner "t New York, i, tho
moving spirit of the working girls guilds
in that city, which number AT least , 600
members. There are six or eigth Of tbs,
guilds aud all OF them have sprung up
during the past three wears. Their con-
tinued organization means growing intcf-
llgence where it is nccdt, most half
dozen libraries started IN as many club
rooms, pleasant places for evening resort
with now and then lecture and simple
tea, aud, last bat not least, woman physi-
clans regularly employed to give skilled
service 10 all who need il
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

Humorous incident is told of the work
of women on the New York School Board.
A janitor Of one Of the schools came,
last week, with a complaint to the princi-
pal. He said that he had been janitor Of
that building for nineteen years and no
one had ever asked TO see the basement
until one of the women Of the School
Board came, recently, and said she wanted
to make an examination. And that base
ment wasn't in a fit condition for anyone
to see" he added plaintively.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

Through the efforts of the w. c. L. L.
women in Washington, the mammoth sa-
loon licensed on the national drill grounds,
which was to have had one hundred bar
keepers, has been forbidden.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14
Two Opinions Of Whiskey.

r,. >,rr- Fl.nrruJIr.>i.i
,.,->,,,>
~ruj you some >'hi H'N >',i''
"f ttrr W"~' ""nd"r- RI 'hr "n'-t Wonder
fu. wh.~krN tlhi r'rf ini Mh>hy} 'hA' 'N'I
drove rhr Skeleton hli"'i "i''t~hah'> 'i''
from thc l"a~i "f h""i> m m"n "r
painted landscapes painted t"Nh~ ~
in th" brain "i man. cardinal req. ~ h'-
II j~ TIA" mn4i"d ihr Mih@i'1 Souls ~
~ou.~ ot wheat aHl rolli ahI NtFN rhhlh"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

An old lady who lately died in Vienna
left all her property, valued at thirty thou
sand horins, to her nineteen-yea r-old
niece, on condition that the latter should
never wear clothes of any other cut than
those worn by her aunt. The niece ac-
cepted the conditions.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

Po>roFII~ CuNFFpRir \ ROADS
tWlch j. in the State nv Kentucky.
Feb IL i~NT
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14
Absent Minded.

81 Louis GIaLe-D Dem"cfnt,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

Some one comes forward with the theory
that cigarette smoking tends to Softcning
Of the brain. This is not exactly right
but >oftcning of the brain tends to ciga.-
cite smoking.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-07-14

hli ht may see the Visions of lh, past
uj compr,h.uj" Nine c,., w,r. opened
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15
A Venerable Tree.

On II plantation near Starksville,
Ga, stands II venerable oak eighty feet
in height, with II trunk seven or eight
feet in diameter, and its limbs cover
ing a circle OF 200 feet or more. Under
this tree the dusky members OF the
Chchaw Indian nation held their court
and executed their criminals. Tho first
whito court over held in Lee county
convened under this oak. The judge
sat on one of its large roots and leaned
back against the body Of the tree. The
lawyers sat in front Of him on roots and
elsewhere, and laid their briefs and
books before them. Here they read
law and harangued the court. Wash
ington Butler, who died Two years ago
at the age Of ninety, was sheriff. At
the time he was sheriff there was not a
public road in the county, and tho office
paid him only 1928 a year. He lived
solitary and alone in II log house In u
corncr Of the plantation.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15
4 Brand New South.

1t is pretty clear that the South has
no time to wrangle over battle flags
and mono to waste in mourning over II
"iost cause She has neW-found
cause worth dozen OF tina. she drop
ped on the field OF Appomattox-the
cause of industry, which is giving her
health, plenty and happiness.
1t used to be said, in the Old days be-
fore the war, that the South looked
down ON the North. However that
may be, il she goes on in mining and
manufacturing enterprises for twenty
years more rs she has been going on
for tho last half decade the North will
have to strike a new gait or tho South
will be looking back at her in tho race.
Her progress during tho last eight
| months makes the league boots
OF Jack the Giant-KilIer quite unneccs
sary. The capital she has invested du'
ring that time is considerably over
5000, 100000. Iu seven years she has
stablisheL l5, 900 new industries, anc
her iron mining increase has jumped
from 397 900 tons to nearly 100000
with machine shops, -four mills, cottor
mills, lumber mills, and in fact every
thing else in proportion.
The South is not putting on any airs
but she is making barrels of money
All right. She has a magnificent sec
, ton of country and is working IT fo
all ii Is worth.-NcW rOrh Hcro'd.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15
The Watch Word.
irenl)lcd

The white Democrats of Oaacbita parish
do not propose to make any warfare upon
the political, civil or personal rights Of the
negro, but self-preservation being the first
law OF nat ure, thoy do propose that the. ne
OF designing white mon to perpetuato the
Infamous methods heretofore resorted TO in
thr Ouachita parish. -Onachitd Telegraph.
The above should be the watch word
of every white man, for it is a notori-
Gus fact that the negro when turned
loose is susceptible of being controlled
! by bad men.-Lticbio,sd BEACON.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15
Tie Confederate States Constitution.

Mrs. Gen. II. II. II. Cobb, OF Atlanta,
has the original draft OF the Contedcr-
ate Constitution as 1t came from the
committee appointed to draft 1t.
The paper is q very valuable one, and
it Is highly priced by Mrs. Cobb. 1t Is
said that the Constitution which was
adopted by the Confederate Congress
is the property Of Sarony, the ccle-
brated photographer Of New York.
,S,J,y,V ,SOlttH
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15
Time to Stop Wrangling.
IN. o. Chroniclo.1

IN. o. Chronicle.l
Any sensible person who considers
the present political situation in this
State must conclude that the time has
arrived when the two factions which
have been agitating the gubernatorial
question for the past six months should
cease their wrangling and calmly await
action by the people.
1t Is apparent that the sufIragans of
the State are not disposed TO confinc
themselves to either the present Gov
crnor or Ex-Governor, but that there
arc several distinguished gentlemen
whom they would even prefer. 1t is
true that they hnve been told by sew
eral eloquent speakers that they must
choose between these two gentlemen
alone, but al they cannot SEQ by what
authority tho positive assertion Is
| made, and as II does not conform TO
practical judgment of men and affairs,
they are not disposed to DO fed upon
pabulum so thin and unsatisfying.
The Democracy OF Louisiana are not
slaves of combinations Of Office. seekers,
and they do not believe that ono man
should be solely charged with all the
errors OF Democratic State admins
tratlOn, or (hat nnotuer shOuIu De Auo
commcnde as tho sole dispenser OF re-
form balm to the wounded In past po-
litical conflicts. Democracy does not
believe in tho ono man power OF any
kind, and Is nauscated by the offensive
and elusive efforts In behalf OF Ntcft-
oils and McEuery by their indiscreet
friends. The choice must bo free, and
the people exercise duo freedom, and
they arc possibly going to ignore both
OF the candidates of the factions.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15
White Men Should Rule.

This is essentially white mans country
and white men should rulo it. Lot tho
majority OF white Democrats nominate the
officers and tho negroes will cheerfully ac-
stuiesce. IL would DO best for thein nnd for
white man. -Ounchitn 1ctcgraph.
You are right, neighbor, and the
candidate who pins his faith To the no.
gro is not worthy the confidence Of the
white people. e.-Richto,td Be0co7s.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15
YO-D.f \.

Ii we knew the woe and heartache,
Waiting for us down the road,
IT our lips could taste the worm-wood,
II our backs could feel the load,
Would we waste to-day in wishing
For time that ne'er can be?
Would we wait In such impationce
For our ships to como from sea?
If we know the baby fingers
Pressed against the window pane
Would bo cold and still tomorrow,
Never to trouble us again,
Would the bright eyes Of onr. darling
Catch tho frown upon our brow
Would tho print of rosy fingers
Nex us then ~ they do nowf
All! those little ico.cold fingers.
How they point our memories back
To tho hasty words and actions
Strewn along our backward track!
How those littio hands remind us,
AS III snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns, but roses,
For our reaping by and by.
Strange we never prize the music
TIL the sweet-Voieed bird has flown;
Strange that we should slight tho violets
Till tho lovely flowers are gone;
Strange. that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-hnlf 80 fair
As when winters snowy pinions
Shake tho white down in tho air.
Hope from which the seal of silence
Mono hut God can roll away,
Never bloSSonleu In such beauty
AS adorns tho month to-day;
And sweet words that freight our msm-
ories
With their beautiful perfume,
Come DER us with softer accents
Through the portals of the tomb.
Let us gather up tho sunbeans
Lying all around our path,
Let us keep tho wheat and roses,
CASTING out tho thorns and chan:
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In tho blessings OF o-dRy,
With the patient hand removing
All tho briars from our way.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15

1t Is not generally known that cam
els, both wild and tame, ore found in
Texas, yet such is the TACT, and Some
of them will be on exhibition at tho
State fair at Dallas this fall. The first
OF these animals were brought to the
State by the government in 1852 to test
their usefulness in crossing the Amefi-
can desert to California. Tney came
from Arabia, and wero the ancestors OF
those now in the Stale.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15

The latest gate novel by Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps is called "The Gates Be
tween" 1t probably got in through
"The Gates Ajar." The author will
never squenl.--PicnyiDe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-15

THE TELEGRAPH One dollar per
year.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-10-06
How Booth Died.

As Herold left, Booth made move
ment as though to raise his carbine,
and Boston Corbett fired. The ball
struck Booth just behind his ear, in
about the same place where he struck
the president. The bullet lodged in
the vertebre of his neck, and this
part of his anatomy was afterward cut
out, and the bone with the ball in it
was kept in the medical museum at
Washington. just before Corbett fred
the straw at the back of the barn was
fired by detective, and as the blaze
leaped upward / rushed in and seized
Booth, throwing my arms around his
waist under his uplifted arms, and
dragging him out of the burning barn.
We carried him to the porch of the
Garret farmhouse, and ne died within
few hours.-LtppiacOtes Magazine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-10-06
The Lady Editors Perplexity,

will here state that since tho fret
issue of my little jourps.',. sixtv-fonr
more or less, direct offers of maria ore
nave peeh mae to me, all from parties
never saw or heard of. From such
a lis. L could undoubtedly select curl
osity worthy of mummifying. But the
plain, naked truth of the case is that
when | was just passing out of my
teens, few years since, | actually
met crank face to face. He had the
fearless courage to vocalize his offer
ing, and, it being the first, with no
guardian angel to impress my dreams
of the deluge which was to follow, at
first positively refused, directly re-
Tented, shortly acquiesced. The fact
is, | am married and have three youth
full daughters and a husband. Gentle
men, don't become desperate; there are
hundreds and thousands of chances
left for you yet.-D0uglaSUiiLe (Ga.)
Industrial Woman.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-10-06
An Attractive Volcano.


A San Salvador correspondent of
writes: Your Central American COR
respondent was recently at Izalco, the
most active and most attractive of the
volcanoes of Central America. 1t
never harms anybody. There is
church at its base, its buttressed walls
quite eighteen feet thick. 1t has stood
the rockings and racket of daily
quakes through $50 years. Three
great bells. each weighing 1000
pounds, and constituted quite one-half
of silver, are suspended in the church
yard. They are often tolled by Izalco
when the jolly mountain is in a rouick-
ing good humor, or perhaps when it
is ''colicky." Its explosions occur at
intervals of from three to FIVE and
fifteen minutes. Now and then the
great vent for explosive forces within
arc hermetically sealed for five or six
hours, and even longer. Then the
country has ague fits and San Saliva
dor is shaky, and the prescribed path
of earthquakes, which is about twenty
five miles wide, is ''rattled." This,
too, is the width of the coalbeds along
the coal is the river of oil that is on
fire at Izalco. There coal, oil, and n
stream of water meet. Each explosion
of the mountain emits two columns,
one of black smoke from the burning
oil, the other of white steam from Rio
Caiiente, which runs out from beneath
the mountain and crosses the railway
five miles from the volcano. The
water is so hot that it peeled the hair
off my mules leg that crossed it a few
days ago. When an explosion occurs
in Izalco, not only do these two col
umns of steam and of smoke rise up
among the clouds, but great stones
and ashes and scori9 and vast vol
umns of lava are emitted. The greater
portion of all this measureless volume
of earthly mineral substances fails
back into the crater, closing it and
resting on it as a mighty valve. Great
masses of earth and stone fall in from
the interior of the mountain side, and
then the valve is heavier and deeper
and broader than usual, and then the
oil must burn longer, and greater and
more resistless volumes of gas must
be produced. The flames rage, the
waters boil, gas and steam and smoke
explode at last, and the country along
the earthquakes or coal measures
route is rudely shaken, and the thun-
ders of the universe are heard roaring
through the vast distances in measure
less caverns beneath IzalcO.
Nobody should be afraid of earth
quakes. They are simply products of
forces of cOal-oil gas and water. All
that astonishing yarn about mother
earth cooling off and contracting her
belt is very fine aud grand and impos-
ing, as a theory, but it won't hold
water; certainly not that of Rio
Caliente, which took the hair, last
Saturday, off my gray mules shins.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-10-06
Bitten by a Centipede.

A well-known lady of Albuquerque
was picking blackberries in her
garden when she felt something
bite her on the right side of the neck
just below the ear. She quickly put
her right hand up the place, when a
centipede curled itself around her
forefnger. She Immediately brushed
it off with her other hand, and strange
to relate, did not faint nor scream. nor
frighten her husband, nor daughter,
or anyone else by calling to them, but
ran into the house, and finding the
ammonia bottle empty, took a big
knife and stuck the blade into the fire
in the stove until it got hot, when she
applied it to the wound. Next she
took some soda and applied that.
fastening it by wrapping cloth around
her neck. By this time her neck be-
gan to swell, and she says she felt as
though the top of her head was about
to secede, and closed her teeth tightly
to make sure that her head was not
gone. In a short time she felt greatly
relieved and then informed her daugh-
ter. She did not even call for
doctor, but she has procured another
supply of ammonia. Though it oc-
Cured several days ago, the wound
now looks as if an ant had bitten her
That lady would keep her presence of
mind in fire or in railroad accident
--AI6uquerqale Citizen.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-10-06
Commodore Melville.

George w. Melville, who has been
promoted to the highest position at
tanned in the Navy Engineer Corps,
that of Engineer-in-C Chief with the rank
of Commodore, is a man of striking
appearance, and despite the fact that
he is junior to fifty others on the active
list not murmur has been heard from
his seniors, who might be supposed to
be jealous of the selection. His
superior ability and many other quail
tications are appreciated by all of his
fellows. He was born in New York
in 1881, and consequently will not
reach his retiring age until 1908, but
having been chief of the Bureau of
Steam Engineering he will ii he serves
a full term of four years, be exempt
from sea duty, except in time of war.
In Melvilles school-boy days his
family were well known among the old
Knickerbockers. He is a heavy-hIiIt
man, weighing about 100 pounds. is
five feet eleven inches ip height, is of
light complexion. and has bright blue
eyes. Notwithstanding his severe
arctic experience on the Jeanette, from
which he suffered many months after
his return he is quite supple and ath-
letic. When he returned from the
Polaris search expedition on the
Tigress in 1873 friend greeted him at
the navy yard with: ''Well, George,
how do you feel?' He replied: LAS
bright as a new uniform would feel on
me; | never felt better" And to prove
his assertion he turned a handspring
without any difficulty.